🌳 1. Brazilian Rosewood (Dalbergia nigra)
Type: Hardwood tree
Native to: Atlantic Forest of Brazil
Uses: Luxury furniture, musical instruments (especially guitars and pianos)
Features:
Beautiful, dark, and fragrant wood
Slow-growing and highly durable
Status: Endangered – Logging is restricted due to overexploitation
🌺 2. Brazilwood (Paubrasilia echinata)
Also known as: Pernambuco wood
National tree of Brazil
Uses: High-quality bows for string instruments, red dye (historically)
Features:
Small to medium-sized tree
Orange-red heartwood
Spiny trunk and yellow flowers
Status: Endangered due to deforestation
🌿 3. Ipe (Handroanthus spp.)
Also called: Brazilian Walnut
Type: Flowering hardwood tree
Uses: Decking, flooring, heavy construction
Features:
Very dense, rot-resistant wood
Beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers (yellow, pink, or purple)
Common in landscaping
🌴 4. Brazilian Cherry (Hymenaea courbaril)
Also known as: Jatoba
Type: Hardwood tree
Uses: Flooring, furniture, tools
Features:
Extremely hard and durable wood
Bears edible pods with a sweet pulp
Attractive reddish wood grain
🌸 5. Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia)
Type: Ornamental flowering tree
Features:
Purple-blue bell-shaped flowers
Fern-like foliage
Fast-growing and popular in tropical/subtropical landscaping